focus for this week: Why don't birds fly backwards ?
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At the moment I am reading Peter Pan (original edition title: Peter and Wendy) by J.M Barrie. There is an interesting place in the book when Peter, Wendy, John, Michael and Tinker Bell reach Neverland. The pirates can see them because of Tinker Bell’s light and they get the big gun out to let it fly eventually. First, Wendy, John and Michael want Tink to go away. But of course Peter does not abandon her (good Peter).

“Then tell her,” Wendy begged, “to put out her light.”
“She can’t put it out. That is about the only thing fairies can’t do. It just goes out of itself when she falls asleep, same as the stars.”
“Then tell her to sleep at once,” John almost ordered.
“She can’t sleep except when she’s sleepy. It is the only other thing fairies can’t do.”
“Seems to me,” growled John, “these are the only two things worth doing.” (from Project Gutenberg)

I like this part. Because you see that it is not the only thing fairies can not do, but the info was not given at first by Peter. It is similar to testing: you should not believe only what you get to know at that moment. Explore it more. Then you can put Tinker Bell in the hat or find another solution.

I am wondering what other things Tink and the other fairies are not able to do? For your info: I am reading the book now for the first time, but I watched the movie. I will continue adding at the end of this post, what Tink and/or the other fairies can not do.

The other reason I liked this part was that fairies are limited creatures. If fairies can not do everything, can there be concluded that other creatures can not too?

You can read Peter Pan at Project Gutenberg

Erkan YILMAZ

What fairies are not able to do:

• Tink can not come out from a drawer alone
• Tink can’t go a twentieth part of the way round
• Tink can not fly so slowly (because Wendy, John and Michael can not keep up the speed in flying)
• Tink can only recover from drinking poisoned medicine, when kids believe in fairies.
• When a child says, `I don’t believe in fairies’, one fairy does not survive this and falls down dead.
• Fairies do not live very long (but they are so small, that a short time appears for them very long)
• There is no fairy for every boy and girl.
• There are fairies who have a blue color and they are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.

Author: Erkan Yilmaz (2007-04-06)